Date: 15 - 16 May 2017   Location: Science and Technology Park of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain   Website: marinerobotics.eu   Programme: download here   Proceedings: download here   Photo gallery: open here

EMRA '17 Workshop on EU-funded Marine Robotics and Applications was organized at the  University of Girona from May 15 to May 16, 2017, as a part of H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics". The goal of this workshop was to bring together academia and industry representatives from all around EU, who work in the field of marine robotics, so that they can present their work, exchange ideas, and discuss about the development of marine robotics in the future.

During the two-day one-track workshop, there were 95 atendees, 45 European institutions and companies from 15 different countries. 2 keynote speakers gave a speech, 19 EU funded research projects were presented, together with 6 private sector and tech transfer presentations.

EMRA '17 PROGRAMME

Keynote talks

• Lorenzo Brignone, L'Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), "IFREMER Developed Hybrid ROV/AUV Ariane"
• Scott Reed, Seebyte Ltd, "Underwater Robotics - current commercial capabilities and future requeriments"

EC Projects Presentations

• DexROV: dexterous ROV interventions operated from an onshore control center, Jeremi Gancet, Space Applications Services NV/SA
• SWARMs: Smart and Networking UnderWAter Robots in Cooperation Meshes, José-Fernán Martinez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

• BRIDGES: Bringing together Research and Industry for the Development of Glider Environmental Services, Laurent Mortier, ENTSA Paris Tech

• ROBUST: Robotic subsea exploration technologies, Graham Edwards, The Welding Institute Ltd

• MARIS: Marine Autonomous Robotics for InterventionS, Pino Casalino, University of Genova (ISME)

• The MEDUSA Deep Sea and FUSION AUVs - when research and business get together, Bruno Cardeira, Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon)

• SUNRISE and EASME Archeosub: Building the Internet of Underwater Things, Chiara Petroli, University of La Sapienza (Rome)

• subCULTron - A swarm of robots in the lagoon of Venice, Ronald Thenius, Uni Graz

• CADDY: Cognitive Autonomous Diving Buddy, Nikola Miskovic, University of Zagreb - FER

• VAMOS: Viable Alternative Mine Operating System, Eduardo Silva, ISEP / INESC TEC

• European Robotics League Emergency: a multi-domain outdoor robotics challenge, Gabriele Ferri, CMRE

• The WiMUST H2020 project: Widely scalable Mobile Underwater Sonar Technology, Giovanni Indiveri, University of Salento (ISME)
• MERBOTS: Multifunctional coopERative marine roBOTs for Intervention DomainS, Pedro J Sanz, University Jaume I
• MARINE UAS: Innovative Training Network on Autonomous UAS for Marine and Coastal Monitoring, José Pinto, LSTS - Feup (Porto)
• MORPH: MARINE ROBOTIC SYSTEMS OF SELF-ORGANIZING, LOGICALLY LINKED PHYSICAL NODES, Bruno Cardeira, Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon)
• OceanRINGS: Current State of Development and Future Work, Edin Omerdic, University of Limerick
• e-URready4OS: Underwater Robotics Ready for Oil Spill, Javier Gilabert, Universidad Politecnica de Cartegena
• ROBOCADEMY: the Future generation of Maritime and Underwater Robotics Research, Thomas Vögele, DFKI 

Companies

• Carme Paradeda, ICTINEU SUBMARINS, "TECH TRANSFER EXPERIENCE: From ICTINEU3 manned submersible to underwater robotics market"

• Marc Torner, SOCIB Glider Engineer, "SOCIB-GF: Introducing SOCIB's Glider Facility and its Open-Access Program"

• Héctor Martínez, TECNOAMBIENTE, "TECNOAMBIENTE: SME marine survey industry challenges"

• Jörg Kawla, ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GMBH, "The SeaCat Hybrid AUV: from toy to product"